There’s not much for Ulysses Gomez to say about his octagon debut at UFC on FOX 4, other than the better man that night was not him.

“At that level, everybody’s talented,” Gomez on Friday told MMAjunkie.com Radio (www.mmajunkie.com/radio). “It’s just who puts it together better that night. I didn’t put it together and he did, and unfortunately, he put it together on my face.”

And while he’s made no formal decision on the matter, Gomez did point out that all of his losses have come while fighting at flyweight.

“I don’t want to say the guys at 125 are better,” he said. “Actually, yeah, I do. I think the reason why I’ve had three losses at 125, and none at 135, is because at 135, there’s a little bit more guys, so you can go through and establish yourself in the pecking order.

“At 125, there’s not that many guys, so … literally every other fight I was fighting the top 10 guys.”

A former regional champion at flyweight and bantamweight, Gomez (9-3 MMA, 0-1 UFC) stepped in on short notice to fight fellow newcomer John Moraga (11-1 MMA, 1-0 UFC) on the preliminary card of UFC on FOX 4, which took place this past Saturday, Aug. 4, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Gomez noted that he cut around 20 pounds in 15 days to make the flyweight limit for the fight, but didn’t say the cut was especially hard.

The fight proved to be a different story. Moraga put on a masterful display of striking before knocking out Gomez late in the first round of the fight, which aired live on FUEL TV. While doing so, he made a strong argument for being a top-tier fighter in the 125-pound division.

Gomez didn’t say whether he was contemplating a move back to bantamweight. He did wonder whether he was too relaxed in the cage that night.

“Maybe that’s why I lost, because I wasn’t nervous,” he said. “My senses weren’t heightened. But it’s just one of those things that you chalk up to experience and come back stronger.

“Now, I can look forward to my UFC debut.”

Gomez said the sting of his loss was eased when he attended a Sunday game of his soccer-playing brother, Hercules Gomez, who also plays for the U.S. national team.

“I was glad to support him,” he said. “It didn’t matter what happened to me before because that day was about him.”

As far as a silver lining to his recent setback, the veteran fighter and Los Angeles native did get to fulfill a dream by fighting under the same roof as his beloved Los Angeles Lakers.

“I’m a huge Lakers fan, and I told myself after the fight to look up at the rafters and see all the banners,” he said. “I just didn’t think I’d be looking up at them on my back in the cage, but it’s one of those things.”

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